The bureau's new heatwave alert service points to hot conditions from Tuesday for south-eastern Australia. An extensive heatwave is sweeping eastwards across Australia, baking inland regions and ensuring the Australian Open Tennis Championships has one of its hottest starts. Players slugging it out at Melbourne Park can expect a very hot tournament, with temperatures to reach 35 on Monday and 41 on Tuesday, and then 39, 41 and 40 for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, the bureau said in its Sunday forecast update....
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